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The stats are a bit misleading. Of course the sales for Jan 2017 will be low if it was known beforehand that Q4 2016 would be the last moment that electric cars
by misja111 9y ago
The stats are a bit misleading. Of course the sales for Jan 2017 will be low if it was known beforehand that Q4 2016 would be the last moment that electric cars were not fully taxed. Everyone who was planning to purchase an electric car would make sure to buy it in Q4 2016 and not in Q1 2017.
This doesn't tell much about the future of electric cars sales in Denmark; after a while the sales will recover again and only then we will know if they have dropped comparing to the earlier numbers or not.
- NetMonkey 9y agoNot only that - judging from used car websites in Denmark around the time, quite a few people seemed to have bought Teslas with expectation that they could sell them at a higher price after the tax increase. If I remember correctly it was initially rumored that the tax increase would not have been gradual.
- foota 9y agoRight? Plus it looks like there's a seasonal increase towards the end of the year- should probably be compared against ice cars.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 9y agoI can confirm. I work with some Danes, one of whom bought a Tesla under this regime. There was a mad scramble to purchase Teslas before Q1 2017, which also shifts the numbers even more as people who weren't planning to buy before 2017 were incentivized to do so.